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#3533 - Friday, May 15, 2009 - Editor: Jerry Katz

 

The Nonduality Highlights - NDhighlights

 

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Continuing the discussion on nonduality and the experience of pain, is an

article by Ramesman Vemuri.

 

For other Highlights issues covering this topic, visit

http://nonduality.com/hl3530.htm

http://nonduality.com/hl3532.htm

 

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AMELIORATION OF AFFLICTION AND

by Ramesam Vemuri.

 

(Adopted from my talk on 2 March 2009 at Osmania University, Hyderabad, India)

 

 

Eradication of Sorrow and Advaita:

 

 

At some stage or other, every sensible man faces the fundamental questions

like:

 

Who am I? What is this world around? How did it come about?

 

Many ancient Indian Advaitic texts start off the process of Self-inquiry with

these fundamental questions (e.g. Aparokshanubhuti, verse 12). It is also

usually presented in those texts that 'suffering and pain' are the primary

causes for such an enquiry (e.g. Bhagavad-Gita takes off with the scene of the

psychological pain and despondency of Arjun to whom Lord Krishna teaches

Self-knowledge. Gautam Buddha's Four-fold Path too emphasizes the need to

understand the existence and nuances of 'sorrow').

 

A direct answer to the fundamental questions raised at the beginning gets thus

deflected towards finding 'ways and means of 'redemption of sorrow, pain,

suffering or misery in the worldly life' (e.g. Vivekachudamani (Verses 36-40)).

 

The most common import of all Upanishads is to point out the highest human goal

to be the realization of Oneness (Advaita) of 'self' and Brahman. Sankara (vide

his Commentary on the 4th Sutra, first pada of first adhyaya of Brahma Sutras

(tattu samanvayAt)) says that this realization becomes an accomplished fact when

there is a total " Eradication of Sorrow. "

 

 

'self':

 

 

A sense of 'self' is just an artifact. We acquired 'self' as a useful tool in

evolution in order to help us in the protection and preservation of the body

organism. If 'me' vs. other separation is absent, this body will not know

whether it is feeding this mouth or the dog there when this body is feeling

hungry, needs energy input.

 

 

So the sense of 'self' gives us a separate identity.

 

The identity provides:

 

continuity in time,

 

a coherence to my experiences,

 

ownership for my possessions including my limbs and body and

 

doership for my actions.

 

Our sense of 'self' emanates from our perceptions.

 

We all experience our body to be part of ourselves. It is a fundamental aspect

of 'self' awareness. How strong is your internal image of your own 'self'? This

can be found out by a small experiment (known as 'Rubber hand illusion'). Seat

yourself in a chair. Place a rubber hand in your front near to the real hand.

Conceal the real hand behind a cardboard screen. Ask your friend to brush the

real hand and the rubber hand at the same time. In about 10 - 12 secs you feel

the rubber hand is yours. On the top of it your brain begins to disown your own

real hand. The temperature in the real hand drops down!

 

Such a perceptual phenomenon does not happen just for a limb. It can happen to

your entire body. Swedish scientists proved two months ago that healthy

volunteers could indeed experience other people's bodies as their own through

manipulation of their perceptions. A sort of parakaya pravesha you can say!

 

Suppose you don't get any sensory input at all. Then you cannot even think you

have a body. It happens to you all the time in your deep sleep.

 

Dr. Goldberg of Israel showed that we might lose our sense of self completely

under some conditions of threat for survival.

 

Lesions in brain may make a patient deny part of his own body like a lady who

described a paralyzed hand lying beside her as not hers. This is known as

anasognosia. Some persons under certain pathological conditions do not perceive

their own bodies. So they claim that they are dead because they do not have a

body. This is known as Cotard's syndrome.

 

It is obvious from these examples that your sense of 'self' or " I " is not a

firm entity and gets altered easily.

 

There is no identifiable entity we can call 'self' or a spot for self in the

brain. There is no " You " in your head. " 'self' is a post facto construct after

the event, language dependent and is the result of confabulation by the left

temporal lobe. " Our concept of 'self' is a fiction.

 

Perception - Reality Disconnect:

 

What the brain creates in our head is a map of what it perceives. It is not a

replica of what exactly is 'out there' around. What we can infer today from

Neuroscience is that our detector apparatus (comprising our senses and mind) is

defective or inadequate to know exactly what is there around. Our perceptory and

cognitive capabilities evolved mainly for the limited purpose of protecting and

preserving the body organism.

 

There is an obvious disconnect between reality out there and the map in our

heads.

 

Advaita tells us that our perception of the world around is an illusion and our

sense of 'self' or I-consciousness is a fallacious non-entity (aabhaasa). That

is what exactly what Neuroscience too tells us.

 

 

Mind:

 

 

Our thoughts constitute our mind. It is not made up of any unintelligible

diaphanous, 'mindstuff'. We could detect and record thoughts as the electrical

waves generated by our brain. We are able to harness those energy waves to do

work for us. Paraplegics can move their wheel chairs just by their thoughts.

Mattel is bringing out even Toys this year exploiting this principle.

 

Majority of Neuroscientists do not think mind is a separate entity from brain.

Of course, there are a few of them talking about substance dualism, but that is

certainly a dwindling minority.

 

Mind has been identified as the principal reason for happiness or unhappiness

in man.

 

Vedanta laid considerable attention to one of our mind's trait which may be

called 'Objectification.' Mind cannot grasp or understand any observation, any

percept, made by the senses unless it positions itself aloof as a distinct

observer, as a separate entity, from what is observed. This basic lacuna of the

mind gives an impression that mind has a separate and individual existence of

its own having I-consciousness as its center. Vedanta tenaciously makes an

effort to point out this limitation and strives to transcend it.

 

Religion, however, welcomed and took advantage of a related weakness of the

mind which is complementary to the quality of individuation i.e. separation.

While the tendency to 'objectify' can be called as " Reification " , the second

quality can be termed as " Deification. " Reification and Deification can be

viewed as the fallouts of the universal survival mechanism of 'fight or flight'

that all living creatures have acquired from the very beginning of evolution of

life on earth.

 

Let me explain this a bit.

 

In the face of a threat or danger, my mind has to assess whether I can fight it

out or should run away from the threatening situation. This assessment does

require the perceived thing to be assessed as a distinct object separate from me

in order to measure my own ability in controlling the threat. If I am unable to

stand up to the threat, the obvious thing to do for me is to take flight to save

my skin. Suppose I have become so weak-kneed or have developed cold-feet even to

run, what is to be done? The best thing then to do for my own safety is to play

possum. A more modern and cleverer way of doing it is to 'surrender'.

 

 

Man being so frail and weak in facing the natural hazards or wild creatures, he

began to 'surrender' to the natural forces by worshipping them, by deifying

them. So to 'reify or deify' is the mantra that our mind has learnt as the

modified form of the natural mechanism of 'fight or flight' syndrome in the game

of survival.

 

 

After all, we are using old machinery (i.e. our brain) which evolved for some

other job (survival) to a new use (abstract thinking) for which it is not really

designed. So man takes easily to religions (particularly theistic ones) as

religions excel in the art of reification and deification.

 

 

Amelioration of Affliction and Advaita

 

In order to be free of sorrow, Vedanta advises us to deny the claim of

ownership and doership of our perceptions and actions. The world is not bothered

by an individual who successfully denies the ownership and doership of the

sensations; nor is such an individual bothered by the world. ( " Yasmat na

udvijate lokah lokat na udvijate ca yah " - BG XII -15).

 

Chandogyopanishad tells us that " Happiness and sorrow do not touch one who has

become definitely unembodied " (Ch.VIII. xii.1).

 

Since embodiedness is the result of claiming ownership and doership of

perceptions and subsequent false construct of individuation, it is established

that the enlightened man has no embodiedness even while living. The amelioration

of pain and suffering is thus brought about by ending inferred embodiedness, or

the imaginary sufferer. The actual sorrow of the physical body is not alleviated

by Advaita. All the greatest known Jivanmuktas or let us say their bodies, did

suffer ghastly diseases, they aged and died.

 

John Wheeler in his 2007 book " You Were Never Born " was very categorical about

what sort of pain can be avoided by Advaita. While physical pain and sorrow are

admittedly unavoidable in the relative world, 'advaita' can free the individual

from 'psychological suffering'. 'Psychological suffering' for him is " emotional

turbulence, doubts, worries, fears, concern about 'myself', what people think of

'me', the feeling of being a separate individual etc. " (p: 245). The key is

about one's shifting the focus from a memory-based fictitious 'persona' of

autobiographical 'self' to that very 'awareness' which 'awares' (for lack of a

better word) within oneself (see my Book Review at:

 

http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/teachers/wheeler_ramesam.htm)

 

I shall discuss the Neuronal Correlates in the Brain of a Jivanmukta in my next

blog entry.

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...."What the brain creates in our head is a map of what it perceives. It is not a replica of what exactly is 'out there' around. What we can infer today from Neuroscience is that our detector apparatus (comprising our senses and mind) is defective or inadequate to know exactly what is there around. Our perceptory and cognitive capabilities evolved mainly for the limited purpose of protecting and preserving the body organism.."

geo> There is no such thing as "to know exactly what is there 'out there' around". Even if you refined your senses ad infinitum you would always

perceive an infinitesimal aspect of "what is out there".

What matters is that whatever p. ex. the sense of vision perceives is not separate from the organ of vision, and the organ of vision is not separate from the body. So all our perceptions and the brain/mind are what makes up our consciousness. It is not a matter of refining or enlarging sense perceptions, but understanding that

that is all ME. I am consciousness. After having grasped this fact...a voice in the wilderness is saying: you are not even that - consciousness.

You are what is beyond.

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Nisargadatta , " geo " <inandor wrote:

>

> ... " What the brain creates in our head is a map of what it perceives. It is

not a replica of what exactly is 'out there' around. What we can infer today

from Neuroscience is that our detector apparatus (comprising our senses and

mind) is defective or inadequate to know exactly what is there around. Our

perceptory and cognitive capabilities evolved mainly for the limited purpose of

protecting and preserving the body organism.. "

>

> geo> There is no such thing as " to know exactly what is there 'out there'

around " . Even if you refined your senses ad infinitum you would always

> perceive an infinitesimal aspect of " what is out there " .

> What matters is that whatever p. ex. the sense of vision perceives is not

separate from the organ of vision, and the organ of vision is not separate from

the body. So all our perceptions and the brain/mind are what makes up our

consciousness. It is not a matter of refining or enlarging sense perceptions,

but understanding that

> that is all ME. I am consciousness. After having grasped this fact...a voice

in the wilderness is saying: you are not even that - consciousness.

> You are what is beyond.

 

 

 

there is no out there.

 

no beyond.

 

nothing for or from which " beyond " obtains.

 

there is no you beyond before or now.

 

it's a bitch to get.

 

..b b.b.

 

 

 

..b b.b.

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Nisargadatta , " roberibus111 " <Roberibus111 wrote:

>

> Nisargadatta , " geo " <inandor@> wrote:

> >

> > ... " What the brain creates in our head is a map of what it perceives. It is

not a replica of what exactly is 'out there' around. What we can infer today

from Neuroscience is that our detector apparatus (comprising our senses and

mind) is defective or inadequate to know exactly what is there around. Our

perceptory and cognitive capabilities evolved mainly for the limited purpose of

protecting and preserving the body organism.. "

> >

> > geo> There is no such thing as " to know exactly what is there 'out there'

around " . Even if you refined your senses ad infinitum you would always

> > perceive an infinitesimal aspect of " what is out there " .

> > What matters is that whatever p. ex. the sense of vision perceives is not

separate from the organ of vision, and the organ of vision is not separate from

the body. So all our perceptions and the brain/mind are what makes up our

consciousness. It is not a matter of refining or enlarging sense perceptions,

but understanding that

> > that is all ME. I am consciousness. After having grasped this fact...a voice

in the wilderness is saying: you are not even that - consciousness.

> > You are what is beyond.

>

>

>

> there is no out there.

>

> no beyond.

>

> nothing for or from which " beyond " obtains.

>

> there is no you beyond before or now.

>

> it's a bitch to get.

>

> .b b.b.

>

>

>

 

 

 

 

you don't get it

it gets you

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

toombaru

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Nisargadatta , " toombaru2006 " <lastrain wrote:

>

> Nisargadatta , " roberibus111 " <Roberibus111@> wrote:

> >

> > Nisargadatta , " geo " <inandor@> wrote:

> > >

> > > ... " What the brain creates in our head is a map of what it perceives. It

is not a replica of what exactly is 'out there' around. What we can infer today

from Neuroscience is that our detector apparatus (comprising our senses and

mind) is defective or inadequate to know exactly what is there around. Our

perceptory and cognitive capabilities evolved mainly for the limited purpose of

protecting and preserving the body organism.. "

> > >

> > > geo> There is no such thing as " to know exactly what is there 'out there'

around " . Even if you refined your senses ad infinitum you would always

> > > perceive an infinitesimal aspect of " what is out there " .

> > > What matters is that whatever p. ex. the sense of vision perceives is not

separate from the organ of vision, and the organ of vision is not separate from

the body. So all our perceptions and the brain/mind are what makes up our

consciousness. It is not a matter of refining or enlarging sense perceptions,

but understanding that

> > > that is all ME. I am consciousness. After having grasped this fact...a

voice in the wilderness is saying: you are not even that - consciousness.

> > > You are what is beyond.

> >

> >

> >

> > there is no out there.

> >

> > no beyond.

> >

> > nothing for or from which " beyond " obtains.

> >

> > there is no you beyond before or now.

> >

> > it's a bitch to get.

> >

> > .b b.b.

> >

> >

> >

>

>

>

>

> you don't get it

> it gets you

>

>

>

>

>

toombaru

 

 

 

true.

 

and when the bitch gets you..

 

you're gone.

 

..b b.b.

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Nisargadatta , " roberibus111 " <Roberibus111 wrote:

>

> Nisargadatta , " toombaru2006 " <lastrain@> wrote:

> >

> > Nisargadatta , " roberibus111 " <Roberibus111@> wrote:

> > >

> > > Nisargadatta , " geo " <inandor@> wrote:

> > > >

> > > > ... " What the brain creates in our head is a map of what it perceives. It

is not a replica of what exactly is 'out there' around. What we can infer today

from Neuroscience is that our detector apparatus (comprising our senses and

mind) is defective or inadequate to know exactly what is there around. Our

perceptory and cognitive capabilities evolved mainly for the limited purpose of

protecting and preserving the body organism.. "

> > > >

> > > > geo> There is no such thing as " to know exactly what is there 'out

there' around " . Even if you refined your senses ad infinitum you would always

> > > > perceive an infinitesimal aspect of " what is out there " .

> > > > What matters is that whatever p. ex. the sense of vision perceives is

not separate from the organ of vision, and the organ of vision is not separate

from the body. So all our perceptions and the brain/mind are what makes up our

consciousness. It is not a matter of refining or enlarging sense perceptions,

but understanding that

> > > > that is all ME. I am consciousness. After having grasped this fact...a

voice in the wilderness is saying: you are not even that - consciousness.

> > > > You are what is beyond.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > there is no out there.

> > >

> > > no beyond.

> > >

> > > nothing for or from which " beyond " obtains.

> > >

> > > there is no you beyond before or now.

> > >

> > > it's a bitch to get.

> > >

> > > .b b.b.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > you don't get it

> > it gets you

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > toombaru

>

>

>

> true.

>

> and when the bitch gets you..

>

> you're gone.

>

> .b b.b.

 

 

you could say..

 

bumper sticker wise..

 

" i " come a goner.

 

:-)

 

..b b.b.

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Nisargadatta , " roberibus111 " <Roberibus111 wrote:

>

> Nisargadatta , " roberibus111 " <Roberibus111@> wrote:

> >

> > Nisargadatta , " toombaru2006 " <lastrain@> wrote:

> > >

> > > Nisargadatta , " roberibus111 " <Roberibus111@> wrote:

> > > >

> > > > Nisargadatta , " geo " <inandor@> wrote:

> > > > >

> > > > > ... " What the brain creates in our head is a map of what it perceives.

It is not a replica of what exactly is 'out there' around. What we can infer

today from Neuroscience is that our detector apparatus (comprising our senses

and mind) is defective or inadequate to know exactly what is there around. Our

perceptory and cognitive capabilities evolved mainly for the limited purpose of

protecting and preserving the body organism.. "

> > > > >

> > > > > geo> There is no such thing as " to know exactly what is there 'out

there' around " . Even if you refined your senses ad infinitum you would always

> > > > > perceive an infinitesimal aspect of " what is out there " .

> > > > > What matters is that whatever p. ex. the sense of vision perceives is

not separate from the organ of vision, and the organ of vision is not separate

from the body. So all our perceptions and the brain/mind are what makes up our

consciousness. It is not a matter of refining or enlarging sense perceptions,

but understanding that

> > > > > that is all ME. I am consciousness. After having grasped this fact...a

voice in the wilderness is saying: you are not even that - consciousness.

> > > > > You are what is beyond.

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > > > there is no out there.

> > > >

> > > > no beyond.

> > > >

> > > > nothing for or from which " beyond " obtains.

> > > >

> > > > there is no you beyond before or now.

> > > >

> > > > it's a bitch to get.

> > > >

> > > > .b b.b.

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > you don't get it

> > > it gets you

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > toombaru

> >

> >

> >

> > true.

> >

> > and when the bitch gets you..

> >

> > you're gone.

> >

> > .b b.b.

>

>

> you could say..

>

> bumper sticker wise..

>

> " i " come a goner.

>

> :-)

>

> .b b.b.

>

 

 

and..er..

 

that's not from the kama sutra.

 

although...

 

..b b.b.

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Nisargadatta , " roberibus111 " <Roberibus111 wrote:

>

> Nisargadatta , " roberibus111 " <Roberibus111@> wrote:

> >

> > Nisargadatta , " roberibus111 " <Roberibus111@> wrote:

> > >

> > > Nisargadatta , " toombaru2006 " <lastrain@> wrote:

> > > >

> > > > Nisargadatta , " roberibus111 " <Roberibus111@>

wrote:

> > > > >

> > > > > Nisargadatta , " geo " <inandor@> wrote:

> > > > > >

> > > > > > ... " What the brain creates in our head is a map of what it

perceives. It is not a replica of what exactly is 'out there' around. What we

can infer today from Neuroscience is that our detector apparatus (comprising our

senses and mind) is defective or inadequate to know exactly what is there

around. Our perceptory and cognitive capabilities evolved mainly for the limited

purpose of protecting and preserving the body organism.. "

> > > > > >

> > > > > > geo> There is no such thing as " to know exactly what is there 'out

there' around " . Even if you refined your senses ad infinitum you would always

> > > > > > perceive an infinitesimal aspect of " what is out there " .

> > > > > > What matters is that whatever p. ex. the sense of vision perceives

is not separate from the organ of vision, and the organ of vision is not

separate from the body. So all our perceptions and the brain/mind are what makes

up our consciousness. It is not a matter of refining or enlarging sense

perceptions, but understanding that

> > > > > > that is all ME. I am consciousness. After having grasped this

fact...a voice in the wilderness is saying: you are not even that -

consciousness.

> > > > > > You are what is beyond.

> > > > >

> > > > >

> > > > >

> > > > > there is no out there.

> > > > >

> > > > > no beyond.

> > > > >

> > > > > nothing for or from which " beyond " obtains.

> > > > >

> > > > > there is no you beyond before or now.

> > > > >

> > > > > it's a bitch to get.

> > > > >

> > > > > .b b.b.

> > > > >

> > > > >

> > > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > > > you don't get it

> > > > it gets you

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > > > toombaru

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > true.

> > >

> > > and when the bitch gets you..

> > >

> > > you're gone.

> > >

> > > .b b.b.

> >

> >

> > you could say..

> >

> > bumper sticker wise..

> >

> > " i " come a goner.

> >

> > :-)

> >

> > .b b.b.

> >

>

>

> and..er..

>

> that's not from the kama sutra.

>

> although...

>

> .b b.b.

 

 

from the title of the thread:

 

The End of Suffering..

 

the answer is therefore..

 

in pleasure.

 

which is implicitly implied in the word " suffering " .

 

both the end in terms of duration..

 

and in terms of it's end " purpose " ..

 

suffering inevitably leads to pleasure..

 

it is not other than that very same pleasure even now.

 

it's all attitude dude.

 

but i hate to admit it.

 

like i could change it anyway.

 

what a hell an i creates for it " self " .

 

all it gives " you " is something to talk about.

 

with yourself.

 

about yourself.

 

and what a pain it is that you don't get it.

 

it's absolutely fucking beautiful it is!

 

..b b.b.

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Nisargadatta , " geo " <inandor wrote:

>

> ... " What the brain creates in our head is a map of what it perceives. It

> is not a replica of what exactly is 'out there' around. What we can infer

> today from Neuroscience is that our detector apparatus (comprising our

> senses and mind) is defective or inadequate to know exactly what is there

> around. Our perceptory and cognitive capabilities evolved mainly for the

> limited purpose of protecting and preserving the body organism.. "

>

> geo> There is no such thing as " to know exactly what is there 'out there'

> around " . Even if you refined your senses ad infinitum you would always

> perceive an infinitesimal aspect of " what is out there " .

> What matters is that whatever p. ex. the sense of vision perceives is not

> separate from the organ of vision, and the organ of vision is not separate

> from the body. So all our perceptions and the brain/mind are what makes up

> our consciousness. It is not a matter of refining or enlarging sense

> perceptions, but understanding that

> that is all ME. I am consciousness. After having grasped this fact...a

> voice in the wilderness is saying: you are not even that - consciousness.

> You are what is beyond.

 

there is no out there.

 

no beyond.

 

nothing for or from which " beyond " obtains.

 

there is no you beyond before or now.

 

it's a bitch to get.

 

..b b.b.

 

..b b.b.

 

Like molecules make up flowers and atoms make molecules, so is

consciousness,

and the ground. Only the ground is. Things - outer or inner - are just

patterns in

the ground.

-geo-

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Re: The End of Suffering

 

 

 

 

 

Nisargadatta , " roberibus111 " <Roberibus111

wrote:

>

> Nisargadatta , " geo " <inandor@> wrote:

> >

> > ... " What the brain creates in our head is a map of what it perceives. It

> > is not a replica of what exactly is 'out there' around. What we can

> > infer today from Neuroscience is that our detector apparatus (comprising

> > our senses and mind) is defective or inadequate to know exactly what is

> > there around. Our perceptory and cognitive capabilities evolved mainly

> > for the limited purpose of protecting and preserving the body

> > organism.. "

> >

> > geo> There is no such thing as " to know exactly what is there 'out

> > there' around " . Even if you refined your senses ad infinitum you would

> > always

> > perceive an infinitesimal aspect of " what is out there " .

> > What matters is that whatever p. ex. the sense of vision perceives is

> > not separate from the organ of vision, and the organ of vision is not

> > separate from the body. So all our perceptions and the brain/mind are

> > what makes up our consciousness. It is not a matter of refining or

> > enlarging sense perceptions, but understanding that

> > that is all ME. I am consciousness. After having grasped this fact...a

> > voice in the wilderness is saying: you are not even that -

> > consciousness.

> > You are what is beyond.

>

>

>

> there is no out there.

>

> no beyond.

>

> nothing for or from which " beyond " obtains.

>

> there is no you beyond before or now.

>

> it's a bitch to get.

>

> .b b.b.

>

>

>

 

you don't get it

it gets you

 

toombaru

 

When I am the stranger, it got me.

-geo-

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Nisargadatta

Saturday, May 16, 2009 2:03 AM

Re: The End of Suffering

 

 

 

 

 

Nisargadatta , " roberibus111 " <Roberibus111

wrote:

>

> Nisargadatta , " geo " <inandor@> wrote:

> >

> > ... " What the brain creates in our head is a map of what it perceives. It

> > is not a replica of what exactly is 'out there' around. What we can

> > infer today from Neuroscience is that our detector apparatus (comprising

> > our senses and mind) is defective or inadequate to know exactly what is

> > there around. Our perceptory and cognitive capabilities evolved mainly

> > for the limited purpose of protecting and preserving the body

> > organism.. "

> >

> > geo> There is no such thing as " to know exactly what is there 'out

> > there' around " . Even if you refined your senses ad infinitum you would

> > always

> > perceive an infinitesimal aspect of " what is out there " .

> > What matters is that whatever p. ex. the sense of vision perceives is

> > not separate from the organ of vision, and the organ of vision is not

> > separate from the body. So all our perceptions and the brain/mind are

> > what makes up our consciousness. It is not a matter of refining or

> > enlarging sense perceptions, but understanding that

> > that is all ME. I am consciousness. After having grasped this fact...a

> > voice in the wilderness is saying: you are not even that -

> > consciousness.

> > You are what is beyond.

>

>

>

> there is no out there.

>

> no beyond.

>

> nothing for or from which " beyond " obtains.

>

> there is no you beyond before or now.

>

> it's a bitch to get.

>

> .b b.b.

>

>

>

 

you don't get it

it gets you

 

toombaru

 

To my understanding geo is the bitch. Am i supposed to get anything?

-geo-

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